On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:06 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM, [email protected] > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:33 PM, [email protected] > >>> <[email protected]> wrote: > {...} > > There are two problems with the Mac platform: > 1) Linux doesn't support 32 bit platforms from 64 bit EFI systems. > This is a kernel issue and is the case on all platforms. Someone I > know at one of the major server companies was going to have a look at > this for me as all their new servers will be 64 bit and are EFI based > and while they will only support 64 bit on them they have customers > that will want to run 32 bit. I've followed up but not heard anything > back. > > 2) Graphics support due to some random way the Mac platform deals with > its GPU initialisation. This will be fixed for F-14 (and so SoaSv4). > The patches might also fix #1 but I don't have Macs to test. > > # 2 should be in the F-14 beta so testers would be welcome on 64 bit > and it would be interesting to see if it also fixes #1 as well. > What about PowerPC Macs? These lines from http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=livecd;a=blob;f=imgcreate/live.py;h=9153e1010b5e8da1bc90c8a8fd5a558840903db5;hb=HEAD suggest that they were once supported: 879 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l879>arch = rpmUtils.arch.getBaseArch() 880 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l880>if arch in ("i386", "x86_64"): 881 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l881> LiveImageCreator = x86LiveImageCreator 882 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l882>elif arch in ("ppc",): 883 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l883> LiveImageCreator = ppcLiveImageCreator 884 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l884>elif arch in ("ppc64",): 885 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l885> LiveImageCreator = ppc64LiveImageCreator 886 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l886> else: 887 <http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#l887> raise CreatorError("Architecture not supported!") --Fred
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